DVLA to close regional offices

TRANSPORT minister Mike Penning has announced that 39 regional DVLA offices are to close in a bid to save the 26m from the annual transport budget.

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Plans were also announced to bring services to Northern Ireland that are already available in the rest of the UK, such as being able to tax vehicles online. NI will also benefit from being able to transfer personal number plates - which is also a valuable revenue stream for the DVLA.

A DEAL between the Metropolitan Police and finance body HPI will see uninsured cars in London that have been seized by police returned to their rightful owners - namely the finance companies that lent money on them. Previously the vehicles would have either been sold at auction, or crushed.

THE GOVERNMENT will not force new MOT stations to join an OFT-backed code, nor will it require existing ones to do so. This is according to the Department for Transport's response to a recommendation published in a report from a focus group known as The Motorists Forum.

THE DUKE of York opened Bosch's new multi-million pound training centre in Uxbridge on Wednesday, 12 December. The new Service Training Centre (STC) has been built to satisfy demand for the firm's automotive training courses from the UK aftermarket industry.